''The New York Age'' was a weekly newspaper established in 1887. It was widely considered one of the most prominent African-American newspapers of its time.''Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance'', Volume 2
pp. 901-02 (2004).

History

Origins

''The New York Age'' newspaper was founded as the weekly ''New York Globe'' (not to be confused with New York's Saturday family weekly, ''The Globe'', founded 1892 by James M. Place or the daily '' The New York Globe'' founded in 1904), an

African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ensl ...

newspaper that was published weekly from at least 1880 to November 8, 1884. It was co-founded by editor Timothy Thomas Fortune, a former slave.

1884–1887

The newspaper became the ew York''Freeman'' from November 22, 1884, to October 8, 1887, published six times weekly. It was co-owned by Jerome B. Peterson, who in 1904 was made the American

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1887–1960

On October 15, 1887, the newspaper officially became the weekly ''New York Age.'' Fred R. Moore bought the paper in 1907. From 1953 to 1957, it was titled the ''New York Age Defender''.

Gertrude Bustill Mossell Gertrude Emily Hicks Bustill Mossell (July 3, 1855 – January 21, 1948) was an African-American journalist, author, teacher, and activist. She served as the women's editor of the ''New York Age'' from 1885 to 1889, and of the '' Indianapolis World ...

worked at the ''New York Age'' from 1885 to 1889.

W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up i ...

also worked there.

The 1974 Reawakening of the African-American weekly

''The New York Age'', a firebrand fighter of racial injustice that died in the nineteen fifties, its zeal spent, was born again with its demeanor changed but its aim primarily the same. Adam C. Powell, the executive editor of the weekly newspaper, said that the paper would attempt to regain the eminence of the old ''Age'', which was known during its heyday as the “distinguished black newspaper of opinion.” The initial press run of the paper in 1974 was 100,000 copies and it was sold at newsstands for 25 cents.

Personnel

Lester Walton Lester Aglar Walton (April 20, 1882 – October 16, 1965) was a St. Louis-born Harlem Renaissance polymath and intellectual, a well-known figure in his day, who advanced civil rights in significant and prescient ways in journalism, entertainme ...

(1882–1965), theater critic; he was a son-in-law of the publisher, Fred A. Moore * Ludlow "Buster" Werner ''(né'' Ludlow Waymouth Werner; 1907–1967) became managing editor in 1929; he was a grandson of Fred Moore * William A. Clarke, sports editor * Chester R. Thompson, editor of the Brooklyn section * Vere Johns contributed a column on The Arts * James H. Hogans wrote news of railroad men and church doings * Richard Durant, music critic * Lewis E. Dial, sports * Ebenzer Ray, special columns * Bertram Baker, special columns * Olive Arnold Adams

References

External links

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